Riots Break Out

June 19, 1985

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — At least four people were killed and buses were battered by stones as riots broke out in black townships Tuesday after a week of relative calm. Police said they killed three youths in Bongolethu near the southern Cape Province town of Oudtshoorn when a black mob tried to burn down a black police officer's home. In Port Elizabeth, vandals threw a gasoline bomb at a house, killing a 20-year-old black man who was inside.